Paul Lowry
Delirium in Music
(Jungle Room Recordings / WFMU)
The musical discipline that answers to "musique concrète" originated around the 1940s' dawn. BBC radio mutineer Paul's daffy reinventions pointed up that school's laughing-gas potential. He dissected famed selections, then reassembled them with audio gags as punctuations. Gunshots, slide whistles, bells, belches, and what might best be termed the Chipmunks Dotty Choir leap in and out of sometimes-accelerated tape renderings. General scatter-brainedness turns the mind to Freddie Fisher's Schnickelfritz Band.
(The precise year these recordings were carpentered is unknown. Compounding the bafflement, some who've researched this declare "Paul Lowry" may not even be the begetter's true name.)
Recommended: "I Got Rhythm," "Sabre Dance," "William Tell Overture"
Video: "I've Got Rhythm"
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